Original essays exploring important developments in radio and television broadcasting.
The essays included in this collection represent some of the best cultural and historical research on broadcasting in the U. S. today. Each one concentrates on a particular event in broadcast history beginning with Marconi s introduction of wireless technology in 1899.
Michael Brown examines newspaper reporting in America of Marconi's belief in Martians, stories that effectively rendered Marconi inconsequential to the further development of radio. The widespread installation of...
Original essays exploring important developments in radio and television broadcasting.
The essays included in this anthology represent some of the best cultural studies historical research on broadcasting in the U. S. currently underway. Each one concentrates on a particular event in broadcast history - beginning with Marconi's introduction of wireless technology in 1899. Michael Brown examines newspaper reporting in America of Marconi's belief in Martians, stories that effectively rendered Marconi inconsequential to the further development of radio. The widespread installation of radios in automobiles in the 1950s, Matthew Killmeier argues, paralleled the development of...
The essays included in this anthology represent some of the best cultural studies historical research on broadcasting in the U. S. currently underway....
From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels, churches, libraries and even in open fields. For many Americans in the early 1900s, the USDA films were the first motion pictures they watched. And yet USDA documentaries have received little serious scholarly attention. The lack of serious study is especially concerning since the films chronicle over half a century of American farm life and...
From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United Stat...
From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels, churches, libraries and even in open fields. For many Americans in the early 1900s, the USDA films were the first motion pictures they watched. And yet USDA documentaries have received little serious scholarly attention. The lack of serious study is especially concerning since the films chronicle over half a century of American farm life and...
From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United Stat...
